A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

I wrote an in-depth research prompt to conduct a GPT-Deep-Research on the Manus topic, seeking to replicate it with currently available open source tools. This is the result:

Manus is an autonomous AI agent built as a wrapper around foundation models (primarily Claude 3.5/3.7 and Alibaba's Qwen). It operates in a cloud-based virtual computing environment with full access to tools like web browsers, shell commands, and code execution. The system's key innovation is using executable Python code as its action mechanism ("CodeAct" approach), allowing it to perform complex operations autonomously. The architecture consists of an iterative agent loop (analyze → plan → execute → observe), with specialized modules for planning, knowledge retrieval, and memory management. Manus uses file-based memory to track progress and store information across operations. The system can be replicated using open-source components including CodeActAgent (a fine-tuned Mistral model), Docker for sandbox

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You must enable developer mode (tap 7 times on the build version in parameters) and install adb on your PC.

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So you checked system requirements of Secure Browser before and assumed that you are fine with your Pop!_OS, because Ubuntu is supported. Wrong! Ubuntu has gnome-software. It allows to start an exam by pressing the dedicated button in the browser, while Pop!_Os! users have to unpack binary from .tar file and execute it manually. Probably right now you are in shock and have less than 30mins to start your exam. Cool down, below steps should work.

1. Initiate download by pressing "Launch" button on https://test-takers.psiexams.com/linux/manage/my-tests
2. Download tar file with PSI secure browser binary.
3. Open path with tar in terminal: